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On this day 75 years ago (October 27, 1948), members of the chorus and orchestra of Teatro alla Scala gave the first complete performance of Stravinsky's "Mass" in Milan! One of only a handful of pieces by Stravinsky that was not commissioned, Stravinsky composed his "Mass" between 1944 and 1948. "My Mass was partly provoked by some Masses of Mozart that I found at a secondhand store in Los Angeles in 1942 or 1943. As I played through these rococo-operatic sweets-of-sin, I knew I had to write a